# First steps: What time, what day

**Language:** Portuguese  
**CEFR Level:** A1  

> Join Pedro and Cida for opening times and an appointment, one short conversation at a time. Each lesson trains your ear until you can follow every word and answer back.

**Setting:** The doorway of a small hairdresser's in Savassi in Belo Horizonte in the late afternoon. Pedro walks past every day and finally stops to ask; Cida is tidying up between customers. Pedro addresses the shop as vocês; Cida answers for the shop. No formal address anywhere.

## Lessons

### 1. Asking what time a shop opens

Pedro stops at the hairdresser's and asks Cida what time she opens.

### 2. Asking what time it closes

Pedro asks Cida what time the shop closes.

### 3. Checking which days are open

Pedro checks with Cida which days the shop is open.

### 4. Finding out about Sunday closing

Cida tells Pedro the shop is closed on Sunday and shuts early on Saturday.

### 5. Asking for an appointment tomorrow

Pedro asks Cida for an appointment tomorrow afternoon.

### 6. Agreeing on a time

Three is busy, so Cida offers Pedro a quarter past instead.

### 7. Giving your name for a booking

Cida takes Pedro's name and they agree on Thursday.